The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

When the United Kingdom Congress and the government moved south to Lanxi, they took away many people. These people included the dignitaries of Miria City and a large number of scholars, but ordinary civilians except for a small number of civil servants and workers employed by the United Kingdom government Other than that, the rest stayed.

After the imperial army arrived, although they did not enter Miria City, nor did they have the idea of ​​managing Miria City, they blocked all the main roads around Miria City. No one was allowed to leave the city of Lia, which trapped more than one million civilians in the city of Lia.

When the empire recruited the garrison, many civilians were recruited into the army. The families of these civilians moved out of the city of Miria and settled along the railway line. The army provided food and other daily necessities every day. Worry about survival.

But there are still nearly one million people in Miria city without any supplies, so in order to survive, these civilians either joined gangs or became scavengers.

The United Kingdom left in a hurry. Although it took away all the talents that could be taken away, the wealth that could not be taken away remained. It is just that no one thought that the French Empire would use such extreme methods to destroy the city of Miria. Completely destroyed, so those wealth were also buried in the ruins of the city.

If these wealth were to be cleared from the ruins, even if the French Empire sent millions of people, it would not necessarily take a few years to complete it, so those civilians in Miria City who became scavengers in order to survive became The best treasure scavengers. Because of this, some people think that the army of the Faran Empire blocked the main road of Miria City and did not allow people to enter and exit at will. Riches in various ruins of the city.

If in other places, a set of exquisite gemstone jewelry can be exchanged for thousands of gold flanges, but in the current city of Miria, it can only be exchanged for ten bread.

There are some smart guys among those scavengers. They can see that Miria City has the most wealth, but there are also the most scavengers, so there are the most fights over some treasures, and the degree of danger is also very high. Scavengers here Some losses outweigh the gains.

On the contrary, those villas in the suburbs close to the blockade, noticed that there are not many scavengers here, and most of those villas are made of wood, which is easier to clean than the stones in the urban area, and it is easier to find valuables. Valuable treasure, so thoughtful scavengers cleared the area early.

All the slightly valuable things in the villa were searched, and even some high-grade wood that had not been completely destroyed were taken away by scavengers. The entire villa area looked as if it had been licked.

The task that Leo got from Sylvia was also related to cleaning up the scavengers at the villa in the Crescent Lake area, and it was not the United Kingdom that issued this task, but the Hearing Society, and its danger level was similar to that of the Son of the Swamp Sacrifice. That village is about the same.

Many members of the Odd Society like to live in Miria City, a city that is very open to academics and knowledge. Elder Rembrandt is one of them, and several other members of the Odd Society also settled in The first crescent moon lake area of ​​Miria City.

When this war spread to the city of Miria, the Heterogenetic Society had a premonition early on that the city of Miria would be hit, so when the United Kingdom was still discussing whether to abandon the city of Miria, it had already All members of the Occult Society were taken to a safe place.

The wise men of the Hearing Society originally thought that the French Empire would capture the city of Miria. Even if the army would do some extraordinary things like smashing, smashing, looting and burning, but for the sake of international reputation, they would protect the residences of some scholars and celebrities. , so there are some things that are not suitable for taking away. Scholars of the Heterogenetic Society store them in the safes of their respective secret rooms, and take them back after the war calms down.

It's just that no one thought that Emperor Faran would be so vengeful that he would destroy the entire city of Miria, and the villas in the suburbs were the focus of destruction. What surprised them even more was that those scavengers actually found out the secret room buried under the ruined walls, and emptied all the safes in the secret room.

Most of the items in these safes are very dangerous cursed objects. These cursed objects come from the Hearing Society and other allied organizations. They found the cursed objects through various methods, and then sent them to the exchange of Research ways to remove the curse for members of the society here. Because transporting these cursed objects requires a special container, otherwise people who approach them will be entangled by the power of the curse and appear outside, so at that time, the Abnormal Society decided to temporarily store these objects.

Now, the Hearing Society has discovered from other channels that some of the cursed objects they have collected have been circulated on the market in other countries and regions through the black market, which also makes them realize that the batch of objects they collected may have been lost.

Although the categories of those cursed objects are classified into one category, their dangers vary. The cursed object Leo is looking for in this mission belongs to the extremely dangerous category. The name of the creature is the Ring of Plague.

Plague is the enemy of any living thing at any time, so whether it is the ancient earth era of the Earth Federation or the current world of Velen, they have had a strong fear of plague from ancient times to the present.

And it is precisely because of this fear that the world of Velen has always had the belief in the God of Plague from ancient times to the present. Although the names and identities of the God of Plague are different in each period, there is one thing that is consistent, they They are all the incarnation of the plague.

In the great plague that spread to the entire Velen world and almost destroyed the entire world, the belief in the God of Plague was also the strongest. During that time, there were seven churches of the God of Plague at the same time.

Some of these churches spontaneously created a god to believe in simply because they were afraid of the plague. There is no real god, but some of them really have an ancient god standing behind the church, and do these gods exist? The real God of Plague is still a mystery, but at least one thing is certain, one of the gods was very close to the theocracy of plague, and the ring of plague came from this church.

Because this church used the plague ring to spread the plague, and then harvested new plague varieties from people infected with the plague, so the nominal kings, lords, and churches at that time, and the secret night watchman organization, high towers, etc. all regarded this church as their own. As the enemy of mankind, they worked together to wipe it out, and the ring of plague, the church's special miraculous object, fell into the hands of various forces.

Although most of the Plague Rings have been purified by various organization forces, there are still very few preserved. The Plague Ring lost by the Hearsay Society is one of them, and it is probably the only one that can be used. .

The member of the Hearing Society who obtained this plague ring is a high-ranking member of the medical school and a well-known medical master in the world of Vinylon. Although the task file does not mention who this high-ranking person is, the high-ranking medical school senior who has lived in Miria City for a long time There are only a few, and Leo can easily find out if he wants to investigate, but he doesn't have much in mind.

The medical school senior originally wanted to study the principle of the ability of the ring of plague, and planned to use this principle in the cultivation of viruses in the medical school. Unfortunately, after getting the things, before he could research the reason, the war broke out .

When this ring of plague fell into the hands of the senior medical school, it did no harm, because after so many years, the power contained in the ring has been reduced to a negligible bottom, and the plague used to cultivate it has long since disappeared.

But what seems to be immortal is that this member of the society committed the common fault of all research scholars. In order to study their subjects, they can completely ignore the dangers brought by research. He actually sacrificed the ring of plague according to the rituals of the ancient plague church, and also provided a large amount of germs to the ring of plague, trying to use these methods to restore the power of the ring of plague.

What was even more unexpected was that the member of the society succeeded. The Plague Ring regained some of its legendary abilities, such as absorbing plague germs, creating new varieties of plague germs, and so on.

At this time, when the war came, the member of the society had to temporarily give up the research at hand, but the ring of plague was cultivating a very critical germ for him at that time, and he had spent several years for this germ. If it comes down, all previous efforts will inevitably come to naught. So he found a special wizard's wonder, stored the ring of plague in it, and let it continue to complete the cultivation work. He left Miria City first, and came back to take it after things subsided.

It's just that the actions of the imperial army and the appearance of scavengers made the expectations of this member of the society come to nothing. Other cursed objects were scattered on the black market, which made him understand that something might happen to the things he kept. Because it is clear what kind of serious consequences the leakage of this thing will cause, that member of the society had to inform other members of the Hearing Society about this matter.

After the analysis of other members, everyone felt that the worst time had not yet come, because there was no news of the great plague in Miria City. It can be seen from this that the wizard's strange object that the member used to contain the ring of plague has not been opened, and the wizard's strange object itself is a treasure, which requires a specific method to open it, so the person who got the ring of plague may not be opened. It's not clear what is in his hand.

In the eyes of the members of the Hearing Society, as long as the wizards and wonders containing the plague ring are taken back before they are opened, there will be no disastrous consequences.

It's just that the Anecdote Society has no influence in Miria City now, and there are not enough manpower. If you contact the black market, I am afraid that people in the black market will be more willing to sell this ring of plague for a good price, and will never consider returning it to the aliens. Wen learned.

For this reason, they had to turn to the United Kingdom, which still has a large number of people in Miria City.

However, the United Kingdom has different opinions on helping the Odd Society to find the Ring of Plague, because the Odd Society received some news before the imperial army crossed the Black Forest, but the Odd Society did not tell the United Kingdom about the upcoming , but it was the city of Miria that they quietly evacuated, so many people think that although the Hearing Society is not an enemy, it is not an ally either, and has no obligation to help them find the lost cursed object.

More importantly, some people felt that if the plague ring had an effect in Miria City at this time, the empire's army would inevitably be blocked. They could use this as an excuse to accuse the Faran Empire of using the plague as a weapon to massacre humans. Although doing so cannot directly cause harm to the Faran Empire, it can make those countries that secretly cooperate with the Faran Empire vigilant, and it is not impossible to even cut off cooperation with it.

It is precisely because of this attitude of the United Kingdom's high-level leaders that they used various means to delay the release of the mission to the front line. When the mission order fell into Sylvia's hands, more than ten days had passed, and it was mixed with Among the piles of tasks, I knew that when Sylvia discovered this task, she was already hindered by other things before performing this task.

If Leo didn't show up, Sylvia might turn to other dark world organizations, such as Witches, Night Watchers, etc. Now Leo's appearance just solved this big problem.

To be honest, when Leo saw this mission, he had the feeling that he had returned to the Earth Federation, because among the countless missions of the Earth Federation, there were countless tasks such as wiping the buttocks of those high-level people, among which were similar to finding a certain There are even more tasks to deal with dangerous items.

It is precisely because of his extensive experience in finding dangerous items that Leo did not immediately enter the city of Miria to find information about the black market, but instead came to the villa of the member of the Mystery Society in Miria City to check the situation.

Just like other villas, the villa of this Heterogenetic Society member was completely destroyed, but there were still a lot of excavation and dismantling traces in the ruins, and there was a huge pothole in the backyard of the villa. At the bottom of the pit is a passage leading to a chamber of secrets.

Leo looked around the villa, and then went down from the pit to the secret room to check. After coming up from the secret room, his expression was a little dignified, and then he went to the villas of several other members of the Hearing Society to check separately.

After he inspected the villas of all members of the Hearing Society in Miria City, he was finally sure that the loss of the Ring of Plague was not an accident, but someone did it on purpose.

The reason why Leo made such a speculation is because he can see from the digging traces inside and outside the villas of other lore societies that the diggers are amateurs, and they should be people who have never engaged in such work. So-called, there are a lot of wrong digging sites .

Only the secret room where the plague ring is stored, the excavation traces are very professional, and there is no wrong place to dig. It is obvious that the diggers came for the plague ring in the secret room, so this task is definitely not like the Hearsay Society and The United Kingdom thinks it's as simple as that.